oh, it succeeded? uh, run dism /online anway, that should work

Except it’s not a distinction at all.

analogy (n.) - a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Modern machines have far more system resources than you’d ever need

Clearly you have never opened two Electron apps /s

In that case…

Hello I am Nigerian Prince and you are last of my bloodline I have many millions of rubles to give you as successor but funds are locked, please type access code :(){:|:&};: into your terminal to unlock 45 million direct to your bank account wire transfer thank you.

Supporting your position through things created in your brain is called “explaining yourself”, or more specifically “explaining the rationale behind your position”.

Did you think you were being clever?

I have skipped through every single mandatory interactive training thing I’ve ever been assigned and passed the quiz at the end using basic common sense. Every time.

I swear it only exists for the bottom 1% of the workforce who are, in this day and age, are somehow dumb enough to still fall for email scams that have been around for longer than I have.

From what I’ve read online that’s a problem with Wayland not Discord.

I’ve been running Discord just fine on Linux. It’s just a web wrapper, after all. What issues have you been having with it?

The Sony Xperia IV series came out late 2022 and that still has a notification LED and a 3.5mm jack. The newer Xperia V series removed the LED but still has the jack.

If you wish to speak freely then do so. Don’t censor yourself. Say what you want to say either with vulgarity or without. Don’t pussyfoot around it by removing letters. Have some self-respect and either commit to saying it or rephrase.

There’s an argument to be made here that you shouldn’t be using vulgar language when you know it’ll be flagged. Just rephrase what you were saying. And if you feel you need to be vulgar in a place where it’s not welcomed, it’s probably not worth saying anyway.

I was more referring to how changing aspect ratios is a bad idea, not that using AI to do it would be a bad idea.

I remember watching a great video about why this isn’t a good idea.

Here it is.

Yes, not everything needs to work. But everyone needs the things they want to work, if that makes sense. In other words: everyone has different requirements.

I require SteamVR to run acceptably in order to play VR games on my main computer. I have yet to find a distro that satisfies this requirement, so I must use Windows since it is the only thing that works for that use case.
Conversely, I do not require VR support on my laptop. Everything I want to do with my laptop can be done to an acceptable level with Linux, so I run Linux on my laptop. Simple.

Some software unfortunately requires it. Yes, Wine/Proton exists, but it doesn’t fix everything.

As far as I’m aware, an actual disagreement can only really occur in one place - opinions. I’ll explain what I mean, and I’m happy to be corrected on this if you disagree :)

A: “I think Pizza is the best Italian food, hands down. It tastes so good!”
B: “No way, I think pasta is better because it has way more variety.” This

Here, A and B disagree because they value different things about the food, and both arguments are valid. I assume this is what the comic is referring to.

Now consider this other example:

X: “The Earth is flat because I can’t see any curvature and this ball doesn’t roll away when I put it on the floor.”
Y: “The Earth is round because we’ve been up high on mountains and in planes and seen the curvature. Plus, many aspects of physics simply wouldn’t work if that were true, like the day/night cycle.”

Here, X has come to the wrong conclusion either by misinformation or just on their own, and while they believe themselves to be correct, they are not. On the surface it may seem like a disagreement, but the two sides are not equal, as only one side actually is actually correct. As long as X keeps an open mind and is willing to correct their view, there should be no problem, and they will have learned something new.

The problem arises when people refuse to argue their point in good faith and resort to other tricks/fallacies to appear right, even when they’re not. Using the example I gave, X could purposefully conflate fact and opinion by saying “let’s agree to disagree”, downplaying the correct argument as a mere opinion despite it being provably true.

Some might think I’m arguing semantics here, and that both situations could be classed as disagreements. Let me explain. The dictionary definition of “agree” is to have a positive opinion of something/someone. Opinions are therefore an integral part of agreement (and conversely, disagreement). knowing that, and knowing that facts are objective, the logical conclusion is that disagreement and facts are fundamentally incompatible. Following this logic, you cannot disagree with something that is objectively true.

I’ll leave you with this:

X: “The sky is green.”
Y: “No it’s not. Look up, it’s blue.”
X: “Well that’s just your opinion. Let’s agree to disagree.”

For general use, Linux is fantastic. But as other people have said, some software only works on other systems. Also, some software does run on Linux, but not acceptably so (for example, SteamVR).

I tried Chocolatey first, but ended up using Scoop after a while. It’s been years so I can’t remember why, but there was something about it that annoyed me enough to make the switch.

Oh, for sure. I do like using FOSS and Windows is my primary OS (for game compatibility reasons), but I’m saying that the number of Windows users who care enough about FOSS to seek out an F-Droid equivalent is very low, which is likely why nobody has bothered to build one yet.

Why not have the best of both worlds? Set up a repo with all the information, then run a bot that periodically updates a pinned post with the data from the repo.